My friend Joe Stewart says, “It’s actually for the same reason a lot of drivers don’t see motorcyclists. The back of our eyes have blind spots where we don’t actually see anything. Our brain knows this, so what it does is fill in the bits it doesn’t see with stuff it remembers it saw or thinks it should be seeing in that spot. By fixing our attention on the cross, our brain starts extrapolating what it thinks it should be seeing from adjacent optical cells.”

Thanks to Apple’s new MacBook and Google’s new Chromebook Pixel, USB-C has arrived. A single flavor of cable for all your charging and connectivity needs? Hell yes. But that convenience doesn’t come without a cost; our computers will be more vulnerable than ever to malware attacks, from hackers and…

A petition on the White House’s web site calling for charges to be filed against 47 Republican senators who sent a letter to Iran’s leaders has garnered more than double the signatures it needs to draw a White House response.